Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
SCADA

   <application> (SCADA) Systems are used in industry to monitor
   and control plant status and provide logging facilities.
   SCADA systems are highly configurable, and usually interface
   to the plant via {PLCs}.

   (1997-02-11)